[pdftex] weird page sizes?

[The Thanh Han]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:15:01PM -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> I'm now finding (I'm not sure when this started) that I'm getting some 
> weird page sizes, as reported by Acrobat reader, when using pdflatex, 
> and I wonder if anyone knows what settings might be responsible.
> 
> cat pdftex.cfg...
> 
> output_format 1
> compress_level 9
> decimal_digits 2
> horigin 1 true in
> vorigin 1 true in
> move_chars 2
> map pdftex.map
> 
> cat foo.tex...
> 
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
> Here is some text.
> 
> \end{document}
> 
> When I do "pdflatex foo.tex" I get a pdf file that shows in Acroread
> as having a page size of 7.5" x 11.44".  If I replace the "a4paper"  
> in foo.tex with "letterpaper" the pdf file comes out at 7.63" x 10.76"
> 
> If I put explicit page dimensions into pdftex.cfg for one sort of 
> paper, e.g.
> 
> page_width 210 true mm
> page_height 297 true mm
> 
> then the pdf file comes out right, for that sort of paper -- but 
> surely I shouldn't have to do that?  What can I have hosed?!

try

\usepackage[pdftex,a4paper]{geometry}

Thanh